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Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
Last spring, I was in a white van rumbling down a road about fifty miles east of Bangkok, passing dusty awnings that hung over shops hawking cell phones and sneakers, when, abruptly, the vehicle stopped. The road was barricaded; the barricades were manned by soldiers in uniform. After a moment, I realized that the soldiers were actors and the barricades were props. We had reached the set of “The Sympathizer,” the director Park Chan-wook’s seven-episode HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer
The Art World Before and After Thelma Golden, by Calvin Tomkins
The art world is a different place today. Top commercial galleries compete to represent emerging artists of color; auction prices for Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Simone Leigh, Henry Taylor, and other Black art stars are in the millions; and “Black Male” is a subject of graduate dissertations. Michael Govan, the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, recently called it “one of the most important exhibitions in American history.”
Thelma Golden grew up in the heart of
Sofia Coppola’s Path to Filming Gilded Adolescence
When Eleanor Coppola went into labor with her third child, on May 14, 1971, at a hospital in Manhattan, her husband, the director Francis Ford Coppola, was on location in Harlem, shooting a scene for “The Godfather.” Hearing the news, he grabbed a camcorder from the set and raced over to capture the moment. “When they say, ‘It’s a girl,’ my dad gasps and nearly drops the camera,” Sofia Coppola told me recently, of her birth video. “My mom is
Having no luck on Tinder? Get a ROBOT to choose your photos: Dating app tests AI tool that selects users’ best-looking photos for their profiles
Having no luck on Tinder? Get a ROBOT to choose your photos: Dating app tests AI tool that selects users’ best-looking photos for their profiles
- AI will look at a user’s photo album and pick five images to best represent them
- Dating app’s hope is that it will enhance the chances of someone swiping right
HEALTH NOTES: Bogus online profiles damage mental health
HEALTH NOTES: Bogus online profiles damage mental health
Only a quarter of Britons say that their social media profiles portray a true reflection of themselves.
Experts have long warned that the doctored selfies posted to Instagram, TikTok and others harm mental health as they promote unrealistic lifestyles.
Now a survey of 2,000 social media users aged 18 to 65, by drinks brand G’Vine, has revealed that
Katherine Dunn’s Dark Carnival of Desire
When Katherine Dunn’s novel “Geek Love” became Sonny Mehta’s first purchase as editor-in-chief at Knopf, she became famous in the literary world, at the age of forty-three, after years of obscurity. The book is about what happens after the circus impresario Aloysius Binewski feeds “cocaine, amphetamines, and arsenic” to his repeatedly pregnant wife, a retired geek named Crystal Lil, to genetically engineer a family of circus freaks. “Geek Love” is historically beloved by dark and eccentric artists, many of whom
Britain’s best vineyards: Fascinating new book profiles the UK’s most exciting winemakers
Britain is fast becoming one of the world’s most exciting wine regions – and this fascinating new book reveals the vineyards and wines that are helping to give the country this glowing reputation.
The Vineyards of Britain, published by Fairlight Books, is a labour of love by wine expert and photographer Ed Dallimore. He writes: ‘At the start of April 2021 I hit the road to discover as many of the most interesting producers of wine in Britain as I
David Cronenberg’s Dreams and Nightmares
David Cronenberg’s breakout film, “Shivers,” was both a success story and a scourge for the Canadian film industry. Released in 1975, it told the tale of a parasite that spreads through a Montreal high-rise, turning residents into sex-crazed zombies. The movie cost a hundred and eighty thousand dollars and brought in some five million, making it the highest-grossing film Canada had ever put out. Alas, it was not to everyone’s taste. Cronenberg gave his outrageous sci-fi premise a queasy sociological